Kristin Case
January 16, 2023
Employment Law, Sick Leave, Uncategorized, Vacation
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We’re coming in late with this Workplace Week in Review but only because there was so much news to sift through!
First, Happy Martin Luther King Day. I hope everyone is at home, resting and reflecting on Dr. King’s teachings. One of my favorites, which I try to remember during trying times, is in the image above.
If you read any news …
Jamie DeWitt
February 28, 2022
Employee Defense and Workplace Investigations, Employment Law, Sexual Harassment and Workplace Violence, Uncategorized
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Biden to Sign Law Ending Mandatory Arbitration of Sexual Harassment Cases
Congress recently passed the “Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act of 2021” (H.R. 4445). This bill received increasingly rare bipartisan support and we expect President Biden to sign it into law any day.
Let’s take a quick look at what this law does and what it means …
Jamie DeWitt
January 26, 2022
Coronavirus, Employment Law, Mandatory Vaccines, Vaccines
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Despite Supreme Court’s ruling, employers may still develop their own vaccine mandates.
On January 13, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court blocked OSHA from enforcing its COVID-19 vaccine and testing mandate for employers with 100 or more workers. Read below to see what this means for employers and employees.
The ETS initially required employers with 100 or more employees to develop mandatory vaccination …
Jamie DeWitt
November 11, 2021
Coronavirus, Employment Law, Uncategorized
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Federal Court Decides Covid-19 is Not a “Transitory and Minor” Disability Exempted from ADA protections
What happens if fired for testing positive for COVID
First, trust that you are not alone in worrying about this. Employment lawyers have been wondering the same thing. Since the expiration of the FFCRA last December, there has been nothing explicitly prohibiting termination of a Covid positive …
Jamie DeWitt
October 18, 2021
Coronavirus, Employee Rights
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Chicago Passes COVID-19 Anti-Retaliation Ordinance
When COVID first hit, the federal government passed the Families First Coronavirus Relief Act (“FFCRA”). The FFCRA provided all kinds of protections for employees, including paid and protected leave for those diagnosed, quarantining and/or caring for someone diagnosed or quarantining for COVID. Unfortunately, the FFCRA expired in December of 2020 and Congress did not bother to …
Kristin Case
January 24, 2021
Coronavirus, Employee Rights
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With the recent rollouts of the first available vaccines, one of the questions we have heard a lot of lately is: Can my employer require me to get the COVID-19 vaccine?
Late last month, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) released updated guidance on the rights and responsibilities of employers and employees related to the COVID-19 vaccine. You might remember this …
Kate Sedey
April 6, 2020
Blog, Employee Pay and Compensation, Sick Leave, Uncategorized, Workplace Happiness
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In these tough times, most of what we are seeing in our newspapers and news feeds is negative and dark. I won’t repeat the staggering numbers and scary predictions here because we’ve all seen them. Instead, I wanted to take this opportunity to share some uplifting news and to report on the remarkable steps some members of the business community …
Kristin Case
March 27, 2020
Employment Law
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For those bored at home and needing a little “light” reading, the EEOC has issued Covid-19 guidance for employees and has also updated its 2009 Pandemic in the Workplace Guidance (who knew there was such guidance?) These two pieces basically explain how the EEOC anticipates the Americans with Disabilities Act applying to Covid-19 situations in the workplace and answers some …
Becca Nesslar
August 22, 2019
Blog, Employee Pay and Compensation
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Today, August 22, 2019 marks Black Women’s Equal Pay Day. Why does such a day exist? It’s not just another day on the calendar to be lost among the litany of National Siblings Day, National Ice Cream Day or the like. Black Women’s Equal Pay Day represents the number of days in 2019 that black women in America have had …
Becca Nesslar
August 6, 2019
Employee Pay and Compensation, Uncategorized
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More great news for workers in Illinois! Last week, Illinois passed legislation which prohibits employers from asking applicants about their pay history during the hiring process. The No Salary History law is an important step in closing the racial and gender wage gaps.
Before this law, employers could ask an applicant questions about their salary history. This helped to perpetuate lower …